Urban Sketching Handbook Drawing Expressive People: Essential Tips & Techniques for Capturing People on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks, 12) (Volume 12)

Another fine addition to this series. Roisin Cure is one of my favorite Urban Sketching teacher/ambassadors. In this guide, she uses examples from her work, as well as others, to show the reader how to include casual figures to fully capture an urban scene. She offers tons of helpful tips and makes drawing people fun and completely unintimidating. Definitely a great little guide for urban sketchers and illustrators.

Great book, I love Roisin’s Art and sketching people has always been difficult for me. This book offers great examples and techniques. This has helped me a lot with incorporating people into my Urban Sketching.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  Excellent book! Guides reader easily through the process of capturing the important elements when incorporating people into drawings.

Easy to read and informative book with a lot of useful tips on drawing people in any environment. Well laid out with numerous reference sketches by various urban sketchers. Highly recommended for all levels of artists.

Roisin Cure is a wonderful sketch and offers a lot of tips on how to grab expressions of people quickly. Many tips on how to select a subject, sketching groups, hands, faces, skin tones, proportions and the list goes on. Very worth purchasing. I would also purchase Roisin's other book "An Urban Sketcher's GALLWAY" .

This little book is full of inspiration and tips to draw people in the "wild". It includes more sketches than text which I like in an art book. Roisin's style is more illustrative than realistic. You'll learn to how to capture the likeness and energy of a person in your drawing with Roisin's tips and some practice.

Excellent book for building confidence to quickly sketch people. Highly recommended!

Let's face it (pun fully intended) – you can't really go into urban sketching without knowing how to draw and paint people! That's why this book is very fitting as the latest addition to the Urban Sketching Handbook series.As I admire the fun, colourful and expressive sketches of Roisin Cure, this book was a treat for me. It is full of examples from her sketchbooks. I have followed her blog for a long time and enjoy not only her art but also her humorous writing and sometimes funny drawings, some of which she has included in this book.The author addresses five keys to people-sketching. Besides the mandatory tools and supplies, these are covered:The challenges. What do you say or do if people discover you drawing them, what do you do when they move or leave? Who do you draw? I love where she gives people more than two arms or hands to show that they are moving!The proportions. You won't find the conventional “how-many-heads high” technique discussed in detail here and you won’t need it!Poses and actions. Learn the common poses, capture the body language.Color and light. Color for skin, hair and clothes. Light and shadow.You will find lots of sketches to showcase all the above. I do wish though that more illustrations were used to support some of the tips (such as placements for the features of the face) and better swatches to show paint mixtures for the skin tones.The book ends with an inspiring gallery of sketches from urban sketchers from all over the world.Overall, a good addition to the series.

This is another great addition to the series. It is well written, very well illustrated (of course) and really inspires me to try to sketch my fellow man, woman and child. And it reminds me this isn’t meant to be an accurate detailed portrait - it’s a snap shop and yet it can be full of movement and fun and sometimes stillness sums up the moment. Great book.

If you are looking for a book packed with information, oodles of examples, tips and techniques, then this is a gold standard in my opinion. I'm loving working my way through it. Thanks to Roisin Cure for a great addition to the Urban Sketching Handbook series.

This is a wonderful practical guide full of tips to help you draw people around you, quickly and vividly. I’ve learned so much - how to capture key lines quickly, where and how to use a little colour to bring a sketch to life. I’ve made notes on every page. Helpful and clever, with beautiful sketches to provide inspiration for both experienced sketchers snd anyone wanting to make a start on drawing people

This is a great little book, packed full of tips and tricks for sketching people. Particularly good at explaining how to paint skin tones, and create shadows and highlights to show off the features.Lots of information too on posture, gestures and proportions. And advice for beginners starting out on their urban sketching journey.

Loved this book, good tips to break down the process of drawing people, who to choose, how to start, and how to work fast. Full of Roisin's sketches, but many from her favourite artists too.